Wich one do you prefeer? Wich one do you think its appropiated? Well for me, i think it depends of the job; some jobs more than others but every job needs experience so... i may say experience wins...
With the rise in number of people attending university and completing Degrees it seems that some of the "shine" have been taken off, because formerly someone who has been in university was like "WOW look at him he is a great man and has several degrees in university" now no longer university is just for the social "elite".
Now a degree alone wont guarantee you a work place because it is like a common thing these days so many job adverts are now asking for a minimum of three years work experience in the desired field before they will consider you.Now you say "How can I get the experience when I am at university?" This is a true point so this is why you need to know before you go to university what career you want to work in and what is the best path to get you there.
Many university students just go to university as they don’t know what else to do but if you can go in knowing what you want to do it is a big advantage. Another thing to remember is that after you have finished your degree you may not be able to walk straight in to a high paying graduate job. You may have to take a lower salary than you were expecting in order to build up experience. It is only with both experience and a degree that you will eventually get those higher paid management level jobs.
We must accept it... employers are now more interested in your ability to do the job not what you have learnt in a classroom.
domingo, 17 de maio de 2009
Work hard and earning peanuts
Working isn't always a nice day in the office, working on your computer and going to important meetings. Work is our source of surviving since it is what gives us money to by our necessities such as food and things for us to treat others and ourselves, although not all jobs give the option of being able to buy more then our needs, some hardly even manage to pay those needs. There are many hard working and low paying jobs for which people do have to take with everyday. Here is an article posted at http://www.time.com/ about some of the worst jobs in America:
"A lot of congratulations were passed around by lawmakers a few weeks ago when the federal hourly minimum wage was increased to $5.85, a 70 cent uptick. But wages are just part of the problem for workers in bottom-rung jobs. Health hazards, lack of insurance and labor law violations are among the on-the-job inequities faced by these workers, according to industry experts interviewed by TIME, as well as a new report from the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. "This is incredibly important because we're talking about people who, for whatever reason, have been pushed to the fringes of society," says policy analyst Liana Fox of the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington-based research group.
What are the worst jobs in America? Things are especially tough for service workers in three low-wage U.S. industries: laundry services, supermarkets and nail salons. Industry representatives argue that conditions in these jobs are no worse than those in other competitive service sectors. But these are trades that often go unnoticed. Unlike many manufacturing jobs, these positions aren't vulnerable to outsourcing, but they�re losing protection as domestic unions lose sway. "There's no reason these jobs have to be unsafe or very low-wage jobs," says Fox. "These could be good jobs. And these are all jobs that are more or less here to stay."
Work how, when and where you want to
Work no longer has the same straight concept as before, which would be to go to work in the morning, then come back home at night everyday, except on weekends (in some cases). Many new words such as Work from Home, Part time, Flex Time, Freelancer, Teleworking have been brought to the World of business. Here's an explanation for all these working options:
Teleworking:
In a telecommuting arrangement, the employee works from a home office for either a portion of or all of the work week. He or she maintains a presence in the office electronically via phone, fax, pager and e-mail and is usually, at a minimum, required to participate in some quarterly, monthly or weekly meetings at the work location.
Work from Home:
A work from home arrangement involves working from home and differs from the teleworking/telecommuting arrangement in that it does not require that the employee stays electronically connected to the work location during business hours. Work performed is generally done independently so does not require team interaction or consistent communication. It also is more likely that the employee can live far from the actual location of the business for which he or she is working because face to face contact at the location may not be necessary.
Flex Time:
This alternative work arrangement, flexible scheduling, allows an employee to work a non-traditional schedule to meet personal needs. Generally, a flexible schedule is agreed to and worked for a period of time. Some employers do, however, allow employees to shift schedules daily as personal needs require. Several kinds of Flex-Time arrangements are popular including:
- Compressed Work Week: employee works a full time job in less than 5 working days. An example is 4 ten hour days.
- Core Hours Schedule: An employer defines core work hours (10:00 AM to 3:00 PM for example) during which employees must be at work. Each individual can then pick an arrival and departure time, for a total of 8 hours of work per day, which meets his or her needs and includes the core hours. For instance, one employee may choose to start the day at 6:30 AM and leave at 3:00 PM (allowing 1/2 hour for lunch), while another may prefer to start at 10:00 AM and leave at 6:30.
- Adjusted Lunch Period: An employee may choose to take time off in the middle of the day to work out or run errands and then adjust the start or leave time accordingly. For instance, an employee starts the day at 8:00 AM and then is off from 11-1 to go to the gym. The normal work day would then end at 6:00 PM.
Part Time:
A part time arrangement is available only when the responsibilities of a job can be decreased by giving an employee a smaller service area, fewer projects or where a section of the job can be split off and delegated to someone else. The work delegated to others can be fully separated from the part time employee's work.
Freelance:
Freelance or contract work can be a great way to work from home. Organizations are often looking for individuals with great skills to work on short term projects. If you opt for this type of alternative work arrangement, you will not be an employee of the company. However, the advantage is that you can pick and choose the projects that you wish to bid on. Name your price, sell your skills and do the work, generally from home. If the project does not sound fun or challenging skip it! The internet has made it very easy to find this kind of alternative work arrangement.
Teleworking:
In a telecommuting arrangement, the employee works from a home office for either a portion of or all of the work week. He or she maintains a presence in the office electronically via phone, fax, pager and e-mail and is usually, at a minimum, required to participate in some quarterly, monthly or weekly meetings at the work location.
Work from Home:
A work from home arrangement involves working from home and differs from the teleworking/telecommuting arrangement in that it does not require that the employee stays electronically connected to the work location during business hours. Work performed is generally done independently so does not require team interaction or consistent communication. It also is more likely that the employee can live far from the actual location of the business for which he or she is working because face to face contact at the location may not be necessary.
Flex Time:
This alternative work arrangement, flexible scheduling, allows an employee to work a non-traditional schedule to meet personal needs. Generally, a flexible schedule is agreed to and worked for a period of time. Some employers do, however, allow employees to shift schedules daily as personal needs require. Several kinds of Flex-Time arrangements are popular including:
- Compressed Work Week: employee works a full time job in less than 5 working days. An example is 4 ten hour days.
- Core Hours Schedule: An employer defines core work hours (10:00 AM to 3:00 PM for example) during which employees must be at work. Each individual can then pick an arrival and departure time, for a total of 8 hours of work per day, which meets his or her needs and includes the core hours. For instance, one employee may choose to start the day at 6:30 AM and leave at 3:00 PM (allowing 1/2 hour for lunch), while another may prefer to start at 10:00 AM and leave at 6:30.
- Adjusted Lunch Period: An employee may choose to take time off in the middle of the day to work out or run errands and then adjust the start or leave time accordingly. For instance, an employee starts the day at 8:00 AM and then is off from 11-1 to go to the gym. The normal work day would then end at 6:00 PM.
Part Time:
A part time arrangement is available only when the responsibilities of a job can be decreased by giving an employee a smaller service area, fewer projects or where a section of the job can be split off and delegated to someone else. The work delegated to others can be fully separated from the part time employee's work.
Freelance:
Freelance or contract work can be a great way to work from home. Organizations are often looking for individuals with great skills to work on short term projects. If you opt for this type of alternative work arrangement, you will not be an employee of the company. However, the advantage is that you can pick and choose the projects that you wish to bid on. Name your price, sell your skills and do the work, generally from home. If the project does not sound fun or challenging skip it! The internet has made it very easy to find this kind of alternative work arrangement.
Working in London
As many of you may know of this, London is the capital of England. One thing that people that pass through London everyday (and so I noticed this aswell) is that getting to work may be abit difficult in this specific place. You see, London is simply just a city, although, this city has more population then some countrys from the EU (European Union). It's calculated population in July 2007 was around 7.5million people. In a single city. So with this said, and as you may except, the average speed on the roads is around 10mph (around 16kph), and such transports like the metropolitan area has an estimate of 12 to 14 million people. Although, somehow, with so many people, you cannot say that there is an unemployment crisis in London.
Unemployment
One of the most serious problems the country faces today is the high unemployment that continues to grow. In the 3rd quarter of 2004, the last for which official data are published, the number of unemployed in Portugal over the half a million.
Unemployment has a devastating social and individual (social exclusion, poverty, loss of self-esteem, depression, etc.) but also has economic consequences no less serious which have been systematically neglected.
This has serious consequences for businesses, especially those whose sales are used for the internal market. Due to the fall in purchasing power of the population also determined by high unemployment, many firms can not sell the whole producing, so that ultimately close the doors, throwing many workers in unemployment and further exacerbating the circle "unemployment.
"Safety First"
An accident at work is defined as an external, sudden, unexpected, unintended, and violent event, during the execution of work or arising out of it, which causes damage to the of or loss of the life of the employee.
When an accident happens the worker will be compesated with some cash, from the company that employed him, only if he has insurance; when the accident is serious and the worker dies, the family is compesated in this case and will recieve a small ammount from the state every month.
The "Safety at Work Expert" is a professional that cares about the prevention of the accidents reducing it to minimal levels, or even exclude the riscs at all. He develops his activities promoting the affiliating of the necessary technical-administrative resources making them create and develop prevention actions and campaigns in a cientific and technical way.
It is not a Work Accident when it is related with:
Types of Medics
Medical Assistant
A medical assistant job to work in between doctors, nurses and patients. They provide patients with basic needs like bedside assistance and minor medical treatments, and help doctors by taking patients' vitals, reporting on their condition, and assisting in procedures.
X-ray technologists
An x-ray technologist, also called a radiologic technologist or radiographer, takes x-rays of patients' bone and tissue structure.
Surgical Technologists
A surgical technologist's job is an important one. When the surgeon says "scalpel," there'd better be a scalpel. A surgical technologist's job is to assist surgeons in the operating room by monitoring the patient's vitals, handing instruments to the doctors, answering doctors' questions about the patient
Ultrasound Technologist
Ultrasound technologists, also called diagnostic medical sonographers, are most commonly known as the doctors who show you the ultrasound image of your unborn baby. Besides fetal imaging, these professionals also use ultrasound to detect ailments such as gallstones, tumors and internal diseases
A medical assistant job to work in between doctors, nurses and patients. They provide patients with basic needs like bedside assistance and minor medical treatments, and help doctors by taking patients' vitals, reporting on their condition, and assisting in procedures.
X-ray technologists
An x-ray technologist, also called a radiologic technologist or radiographer, takes x-rays of patients' bone and tissue structure.
Surgical Technologists
A surgical technologist's job is an important one. When the surgeon says "scalpel," there'd better be a scalpel. A surgical technologist's job is to assist surgeons in the operating room by monitoring the patient's vitals, handing instruments to the doctors, answering doctors' questions about the patient
Ultrasound Technologist
Ultrasound technologists, also called diagnostic medical sonographers, are most commonly known as the doctors who show you the ultrasound image of your unborn baby. Besides fetal imaging, these professionals also use ultrasound to detect ailments such as gallstones, tumors and internal diseases
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